Yost is Toast in Milwaukee

The Milwaukee Brewers gave manager Ned Yost his walking papers yesterday and promoted third-base coach Dale Sveum. The four-game sweep at the hands of the Phillies was clearly the last straw for GM Doug Melvin, as the club went 3-11 to begin September and was outscored 75-38. Robin Yount accepted Sveum's offer to be bench coach, a role that Yount held in 2006 until resigning to spend more time with his family. While the move is pretty unprecedented in major league baseball, we see firings of this nature all the time in the NHL. While Sveum admitted himself that he won't make much of an impact, as it ultimately comes down to the players, owner Mark Attanasio and Melvin are banking on a strong playoff push here in the last few weeks of the season.

It's become abundantly clear in the last few weeks that the AL Central has become the NL West. The only good thing about this is the fact that this division probably won't get decided until the very last day of the season, which is always exciting and great for baseball.

How about that Monday Night Football game last night? Dallas outscored Philadelphia 41-37 in an untraditional NFC East showdown in Big D. I'd venture to say that Donovan McNabb and the Eagles offense was the most impressive aspect of this matchup, as McNabb played without his top two receivers but still looked as good as he was back in his days with T.O. I love his rapport with DeSean Jackson, and I still love DeSean despite his awful folly at the one-yard line because all the kid does is rack up 100-yard games.